Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 9:55PM 'Top Gun 2' Inches Toward Production with Tony Scott as the Director
About two weeks ago, we mentioned that award winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (Usual Suspects) was going to write Top Gun 2 and that they had offers out to Jerry Bruckheimer to produce and Tony Scott to direct. Well, there's news from WhatsPlaying.com.au that at a press junket for Unstoppable, Scott confirmed to have accepted the offer to direct Top Gun 2.
Now there's half of you that probably hate the idea of a Top Gun sequel because Hollywood usually fails at making the sequel better than the original (and in this case, its damn near impossible), but like it or not, this film is going to get made. I know several people on our writing staff would disagree with me, but I'm not too excited about this one. The original Top Gun (1986) is the just too much of a classic for my generation that I wouldn't like to see a sequel or a reboot just yet. Maybe 10 years from now I'd love to see it but to me it feels a bit out of place right now.
So Tony Scott is directing Top Gun 2, Jerry Bruckheimer may produce it, Tom Cruise will star in it, and Christopher McQuarrie will write it. With a star studded team, this film may get on the fast track very soon.
Reader Comments (4)
Bruckheimer as a co-director?
Bruckheimer will produce it. Good catch MM.
Well just don't call it "Top Gun 2" and make sure it's a very early 21ST CENTURY fighter ace movie and yeah, they've got somethin' that's locked on.
The problem they seem to have is the same thing you have with a lot of the "Iraq movies". Something just turns the "Glee generation" off of anything to do with the wars, or military or anything to do with the big issues of the day. I don't know if it's guilt because maybe their friends have gone over there and THEY haven't, or they're afraid they're going to have draft stations set up after the movie or they're just fat, apathetic and would rather be twittering and facebooking and taking their Aderol and Ritalin so they can stay up all night playing Halo and Modern Warfare. The problem is going to be making this movie be the jingoistic popcorn movie for THIS era that the original was for Reagan's 80's and that may be harder for this divided, disaffected age. Will they overcompensate and put more "rock and roll" in the mix than it needs, or will they hit the target just right. We'll see it, when it's in our sights.
Scott and Bruckheimer better hope that the court decision that ruled military has to allow gays to serve openly is upheld because there is no way they can top the first movie's volleyball sequence without violating Don't Ask Don't Tell.